Recruiter
18-Mar-2009
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Adecco works to reinvent its approach, says Scheiff
18-Mar-2009
Scheiff: cynical business
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Banking
18-Mar-2009
Although the upturn has yet to happen, there are signs in some specialist areas that demand is on the up for well-qualified and experienced candidates
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Best's positive attitude for Spring
18-Mar-2009
Positive thinking has been the key to the success of a new division launched within Spring Group, according to one of the company’s internal recruiters. Best Professional Services was launched in September 2008, based in the company’s Birmingham office. It targets the sales and marketing,HR, accountancy and finance and supply chain and procurement sectors.Now, with the team growing to nine consultants and becoming successful despite the current economic ...
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Career site advice from recruitment stalwart
18-Mar-2009
Robinson: directory of sites
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Dealmakers
18-Mar-2009
Gibbs looks to US - Verifile checks out China - TheAgency tries Ad Lib - SAS marketing for BP - Concept IT is sole supplier
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Diary of... Tristan Ramus Managing director, Hamilton Bradshaw Human Capital
18-Mar-2009
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Divisions launched as energy sector heats up
18-Mar-2009
Blowing in the wind: focus is even more on renewables
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Editor's comment
18-Mar-2009
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Focus more on the candidates
18-Mar-2009
The candidate’s experience needs to be improved so that more precise placements are made
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Foolish to ignore legal changes
18-Mar-2009
1 April is D-Day for employment legislation affecting recruiters. Colin Cottell explains the changes
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For that reason, she's out
18-Mar-2009
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Generation work gap
18-Mar-2009
Communicating the change in work attitudes with candidates from the Generation Y group is crucial if they are to be placed in employment. Graham Simons investigates
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Grinning from ear to ear
18-Mar-2009
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How to... use webinars in your business
18-Mar-2009
UK recruiters could learn a lot from their US counterparts, who have embraced the possibilities of second-generation web technologies
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Howzat for Odgers?
18-Mar-2009
Search specialist Odgers Ray & Berndtson is finding the new England cricket team director. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has created the role for Peter Moores’ successor as coach.Simon Cummins, head of the international sports practice at Odgers, told Recruiter. “The deadline for applications was 6 March and we are delighted with the response we have had.”The ECB’s brief is to find someone who has “a successful track record ...
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Interaction snaps up 31 Kelly Services branches
18-Mar-2009
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International roundup
18-Mar-2009
Australia - India - USA - Bulgaria - New Zealand
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LBA sells three firms in a week
18-Mar-2009
Bissell: selling in a recession
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Local authorities' cost savings to hit recruiters
18-Mar-2009
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Mackie to star over in Orion's energetic Houston office
18-Mar-2009
Colin Mackie - Rod Unwin - Chris Austin -Ian Devlin - Stuart McClure - Gemma Parnell - Rhys Dickinson - Liz Cox - Todd Caissie - Huw Duggan - Nick Bowles - Josie Holroyd - Kevin Edmonds - Daniel Cornwell - Alison Tawn - Richard Thomas - Peter McConnell - Andrew Lofthouse - Daniel Franklin - Karen Mitchell - Katie Bayley - Jenni Surrey
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Marcia Roberts receives MBE
18-Mar-2009
Marcia Roberts, former chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, receives her MBE from the Queen at an investiture t Buckingham Palace on 10 March. The honour was awarded to Roberts for her contributions to the recruitment industry and to diversity (Recruiter, 21 January).
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Mexican banned
18-Mar-2009
And finally… The BBC reports that a Mexican illegal immigrant was prevented entering the UK after a search of his luggage uncovered a good luck card for his ‘new life in the UK’. The man, arriving at Manchester Airport from Los Angeles, claimed he was on a brief visit to a friend who was opening his own restaurant in North- West England. However, he later admitted planning to work illegally after border officers found the card and pages of Mexican recipes.
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Opening time
18-Mar-2009
City office for EC1 Partners - S&H launches new division - Denton targets exec rec-to-recs - Edinburgh gets Rise Jobs - Global Career’s HQ move - IT adds to Clearly Jobs stable
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Positivity in staffing shares
18-Mar-2009
IT recruiter SThree broke back into the FTSE 250 last week, after its year-end results for 2008 showed a 20.8% revenue increase last month (recruiter.co.uk, 2 February).“We have just got back into the FTSE 250. Our performance of late has been more buoyant than a number of our competitors,” Steve Hornbuckle, company secretary SThree, told Recruiter. Despite this its share price dropped by 7.7% over the past two weeks.Michael Page announced a 5% drop ...
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Profiles Creative wins tribunal case
18-Mar-2009
Tribunal ruling: Judge ruled in company’s favor
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QuietAgent delivers career options
18-Mar-2009
Kerr: more analysis tools for candidates to compare CV’s
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Recession sets the scene for increase in M&A activity
18-Mar-2009
The recession has devalued listed recruiters while boosting the amount of cash on their books, setting the scene for mergers and acquisition activity.According to research from corporate advisors John East & Partners, a decrease in the number of temporary and contract staff has reduced the need for working capital, building up balance sheets across the sector.The research found the total net debt of the 30 listed recruitment companies has dropped from £358m ...
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Recruiters to get paid for advice
18-Mar-2009
Recruiters could earn up to £150 per candidate for helping unemployed people at the high end of the employment market. Tom Hadley, director of external relations at the Recruitment Employment Confederation (REC), told Recruiter that from April, job centres will refer candidates, whose last job paid £30k-£70k, to a list of recruitment agencies on a local level for extra support and guidance.The move comes on the back of November’s signing of an agreement ...
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Small chinks of light
18-Mar-2009
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Soundbites
18-Mar-2009
If you could speak to the government about the upcoming staff hire concession legislation, what would you tell them?
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Sweet vision of Adecco's Dieter Scheiff
18-Mar-2009
The chief executive of Adecco explains his global vision to DeeDee Doke
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Take a leaf out of the book of experience
18-Mar-2009
In response to your article ‘Employers told to enlist Gen Y in fighting downturn’ (recruiter.co.uk): Oh please — Generation Y? Those that have never worked through a recession, never experienced a downturn, been cossetted by helicopter parents? And who want to look at what their employers can offer them rather than the other way round? So Gen X do a good impression of rabbits in headlights and baby boomers apply ‘yesterday’s solutions’ do they? Have you never heard of age ...
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Temp workers' scheme is more than viable
18-Mar-2009
Thank you for publishing the news item on the temp pay insurance scheme (Recruiter, 4 March, p8). My suggestion that the industry should have an ABTAtype insurance scheme to protect temporary workers’ pay if their recruitment agency goes bust was described as ‘not viable’ by the REC. Why is it not viable? The scheme need not be expensive and would probably be self-funding. The alternative — large numbers of temps going unpaid and the terrible publicity that would ...
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Unfreezing the cold war for talent
18-Mar-2009
As business gets to grip with the recession, companies are deploying different tactics to have the best and brightest in their organisation, according to a new report. DeeDee Doke looks into how the new people agenda will affect the workforces of the future
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Watt: Ultimate victim of recession
18-Mar-2009
Watt: no-one could conceivably see what was coming
